Of course, factors like poor lifestyle and obesity come into play. But the link is just too significant to ignore.

As lead author of the study, Dr Frank Hu, said: “Although reducing the consumption of […] added sugar alone is unlikely to solve the obesity epidemic entirely, limiting intake is one simple change that will have a measurable impact on weight control and prevention of cardio-metabolic diseases.”

“Eggs do contain cholesterol, but the amount of cholesterol in food has a very, very tiny impact on cholesterol in the blood plasma,” says CSIRO nutritionist Professor Manny Noakes. “And the increase you see in cholesterol is usually due to the HDL cholesterol, which is a healthy cholesterol.”

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